ELAPHRID^E. 63 



(90) 3. * Elaphrus obs^curior. Obscurer Elaphrus. 



E. fobcuriorj supra obscuro-cupreus, capite prothoraceque punctulatissimis ; ehjtris obsolete foveatis, spatiis elevatis lavigatisque 



quatuor. 

 Obscurer Elaphrus, above obscurely cupreous, head and prothorax thickly and minutely punctured ; elytra very slightly 



impressed, with four polished elevations. 



Length of the body 3^ lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species is more strongly marked than the majority of the Elaphri. On the underside 

 the head and trunk are copper with a slight tint of green ; the abdomen of a dusky purplish cop- 

 per : above it is copper-coloured ; the head, with the exception of the upper-lip, is very thickly and 

 confluently punctured, with a levigated but scarcely elevated space between the eyes ; the four first 

 joints of the antenna? are cupreous : prothorax not wider than the head, confluently and thickly 

 punctured ; discoidal elevations not conspicuous nor impressed ; elytra not glossy, punctured with 

 scattered punctures, marked by a quadruple series of very slight impressions, some nearly obsolete, 

 most of them marked out by a very slight elevated ring and a circle of punctures, three levigated 

 quadrangular spaces near the suture and arranged in a line parallel with it, and a fourth triangular 

 one removed from it, near the apex ; the disk of the elytra is faintly purple : legs bronzed. 



XXXI. Genus NOTIOPHILUS. Dum. 



(91) 1. Notiophilus a&uaticus. Aquatic Notiophilus. 



Notiophilus aquaticus. De J. Cat. 18; Coleopt. ii, 227, 1. Latr. Crust. Arachn. et Ins. i, 418. Steph. Illustr. 



Mandib. ii, 32, 1. Sam. Compend. 148, 1. Leach. Ed. Encycl. ix, 79. 

 Cicindela aquatica. Linn. Fn. Suee. 752 ; Stjst. Nat. ii, 658, 14. Goeze. Eur. Fn. viii, 686, 3. Mull. Linn. Nat. Syst. 



V. i, 331, 14. Schrank. Enum. 193, 361. Vill. Ent. i, 325, 10. Berk. Syn. i, 105. Don. 7ns. viii, t. 351, f. 2. Marsh. 



Ent. Brit, i, 393, 6. 



striata. De G. Ins. iv, 118, 5. 



pusilla. Schreb. Nov. Spec. 10, 6. 



semipunctata. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 394, 8. Vill. Ent. i, 326, 12. 



Elaphrus aquaticus. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. i, 246, 7. Oliv. Ent. ii, 34, 6,5, t. i,f. 6. Ced. Fn. Inyr. 28, 85. Panz. 



Ent. Germ, i, 69, 6 ; Fn. Germ, xx, t. 3. Illig. Kaf. Preuss. i, 224, 1. Payk, Fn. Suec. i, 177, 5. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. 



i, 193, 478. Hoppe. Taschenb. 1796, 182, 37. Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii, 10, 4 ; iv, 399, 4. Duft. Fn. Austr. ii, 191, 2. Walck. 



Fn. Paris i, 61, 5. Lat. Gen. i, 182, 5. 

 Elaphrus semipunctatus. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. i, 246, 8. Oliv. Ent. ii, 34, 6, 7, t. i, / 3. Panz. Ent. Germ, i, 69, 7. Ross. 



Fn. Etrusc. i, 194, 479. Herbst. Arch. 116, 3. Clair. Ent. Helvet. ii, 166, t. xxv, /. b. 6. Walck. Fn. Paris, i, 61, 6. 

 Buprestis. Geoff. Ins. i, 157, 31. 



Length of the body 2£ lines. 



One specimen taken. 



